[T]o my Republican colleagues, who are defending the indefensible: there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.
In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.
– Dick Cheney
I think Liz Cheney’s phrasing was more on point than her father’s. Maybe the way to say it is this: Donald Trump is and has always been a threat to all things rational and good. That is his brand, his life’s message. (If that is news to you, or if you have even one bone in your body that resists the truth of that statement, you are beyond help.) But, if it is not true already, it is nearly true, that in our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been a political party that is a greater threat to our Republic than the current Republican Party—and the religious, Christian core of it is its most dangerous faction.
The irony of it all could not be thicker. For all the shit-talk from across the isle, the Democratic Party, as David Brooks put it, “is an institution that still practices coalition politics, that serves as a vehicle for the diverse interests and ideas in society to filter up into legislation, that plays by the rules of the game, that believes in rule of law. Right now, it is the only major party that does that.”
There has probably never been a time when parties were not cult-afflicted. The current Democratic Party is no exception. But the Republican Party at this point is pure cult-of-personality, cult-of-grievance. Its insanity and stupidity can not possibly be overstated.